Ability to select text on mac desktop application
I need to be able to select text on my mac desktop goodnotes application.
My workflow:
I'm writing many papers for school, and do all my research on my mac, downloading pdfs. I then upload all the research articles on my goodnotes 5 for mac application, after which i use the ipad goodnotes 5 application to read, annotate and highlight the papers.
Examples of copying text from the mac application:
* When i'm writing my paper, I sometimes have to manually enter the reference into Word. I have to do this by hand and can't copy and paste.
* When i'm writing my paper, I often have to find references cited in the current article. It would be so helpful to just copy and paste the DOI into a google search.
Also selecting text on the goodnotes mac application would allow an easy way for me to highlight it in one step.
Thanks!
rahim
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Marie-Hélène Demers
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Effectivement, il est possible de sélectionner du texte dans l'app pour iPad mais pas dans la version Mac bureau ni dans celle pour le web ou Windows. Il ne s'agit pas seulement de copier / coller. Cette fonction permet aussi de faire lire le texte à voix haute par une synthèse vocale. C'est une fonction d'accessibilité essentielle pour un grand nombre de personnes dont les dyslexiques mais elle est également utile pour plusieurs autres lorsqu'il s'agit d'alléger la charge cognitive. Puisque c'est déjà possible sur iPad depuis plusieurs années, il y a certainement moyen d'y arriver sur les autres interfaces de Goodnotes. 🙂
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Anonymous
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can i change the color of the highlighting in the 'off-editing' mode?
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Jaejin Cho commented
It seems that turning off editing and copying a snippet does not work sometimes depending on how you select a snippet. One day, it did not work first so I tried to select 2-3 characters more behind the snippet although I did not need those characters. Then, it worked for the copy and paste. It would be good this improves.
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Sean-Lee
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Thanks, everyone. Glad you found this. Can't believe they made it so hard to find.
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Anonymous
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thanks for the comments below, you save me. Absolutely no idea about editing button in goodnotes on mac.
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Anonymous
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figured it out... top right hand corner turn off EDITING.... then it allows you to select text
ridiculous
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Anonymous
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FIGURED THIS THE FUCK OUT....
in top right hand corner. TURN OFF editing.
it allows u to select text then.
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Anonymous
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WHY ISN'T this a thing!!! can't believe the desktop app does not support this.
should absolutely have the ability to copy and past text from a PDF
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Victor
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Have you heard anything about this? I use GoodNotes A LOT and this is one of the things that makes GoodNotes for Mac not as efficient to use.